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...girl is well schooled in human relations (she has been a Harlem prostitute for a year) and chemistry (drinking water, she knows, helps the smoker extract that last bit of nourishment from a reefer). But Lu Ann is a little weak in geography. "Now Man," she says, "you aint gassin me you really got an ocean you can get to on the subway?" Duke Custis, a knife-scarred hard case at 14, knows well enough where the Atlantic is, even has a vague notion that Europe lies somewhere beyond Coney Island. But the boy's world is the three...
Harvard hicks, however, cannot turn to other stations to hear their favorite ditties, for, as Elton Britt said, "thare jist aint eny." Hillbilly music is not sufficiently popular in the Boston community to warrent commercial radio stations playing it. Yet at Harvard it has a large and devoted audience, whose interests should be recognized by the only station which operates exclusively for Harvard students--WHRB...
...Today we went to a museum. I saw a dinosaur. The dinosaur is a animal what aint got no meat on its bones...
...particularly gifted at recording Negro speech: "I cant hang around.white man's kitchen . . . But white man can hang around mine. White man can come in my house, but I cant stop him. When white man want to come in my house, I aint got no house...
...teacher all through three low and no matter how high I ever go she will still be the best teacher in the world. All of the kids say that. Michael Reed will tell you the same. Michael and I were walking home from school . . . and he said aint it awfull going up above Miss Tobin and I said yes Aint it. And he said do you think we will have to go on all our lives getting used to people and learning to like them and then going above them. . . . Miss Tobin is awfully old. She must be more than...